Posted on: May 24, 2021
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A nice medieval-themed resource manager!
It's essentially a resource management boardgame, where you can place your playing-pieces onto workstations to meet the various requirements of the scenario. In detail, the game is made of two halves. One half is the resource-management inside the castle. You have fixed resource-drains and requirements like the defending forces, your character's needs like food and water and your animal's needs. You meet them by creating a basic economy that is maintained through various workstations, which you have to build. Almost every workstation can be upgraded to make the related work-processes more efficient or to unlock new recipes, while some need to be operated by your characters and other work on a passiv timer-base. You don't actually play out the defense of the castle, but you are able to impact it by expending additional resources in the later half of the game. The economy itself is, to be honest, a bit basic and it's not hard to see a almost always very likely optimal buildorder and production-priority, at least on the standard difficulty. Don't expect to create very complex production chains, is what I'm saying. BUT, it fits with the theme. Overall that part is enjoyable. You never feel screwed by RNG and you are able to recover from mistakes. The second part is a also rather basic stealth-game, where you pick a character to sneak through the looted city, which is patroled by guards, You do this to scavange for resources, which you need to run your economy on, so scavanging is a priority. There is a combat system and the city is filled with encounters and sort of "miniquests" where you need to find items to open up shortcuts. It's rudimentary but fun. As a way to allow for replayability, you can adjust everything about the main-story scenario in NG+ and, as a treat, there is an editor added to the game, which from a cursory glance allows for creating everything from scratch, from map to city, castle and encouters. Overall a very enjoyable experience.
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